 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 706 pages
...that aged prince, Richard Flecknoe, an Irish writer who had died about four years before, and who " In prose and verse was owned without dispute Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute," chose in his last days Shadwell for successor : " Shadwell alone of all my sons is he Who stands confirmed... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 524 pages
...are subject to decay, And, when P'ate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe ' found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire and had governed...absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with business, did at length debate To settle the succession... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - Poetry - 1880 - 362 pages
...up as the satirist's rival : All human things are subject to decay, This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed...absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with business, did at length debate To settle the succession... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 536 pages
...are subject to decay, And, when P'ate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe 1 found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire and had governed...absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with business, did at length debate To settle the succession... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...decay ; And, when Fatu summons, monarch* must obey. This Flecknoe (1) fouud, who, like Augustus, youug Was called to empire, and had governed long ; In prose...absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And blest with i^suc of a large increase, Worn out with business, did at length debate 1 Richard Flecknoe,... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1880 - 1104 pages
...who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had govern'd long. For prose and verse was own'd without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense,...absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with business, did at length debate To settle the succession... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 474 pages
...young Was called to empire, and had govern' d long ; In prose and verse, was own'd, without dispute, 5 Through all the realms of Nonsense, absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And bless'd with issue of a large increase ; Worn out with business, did at length debate To settle the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1882 - 524 pages
...are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe ' found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire and had governed...absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with business, did at length debate To settle the succession... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1882 - 480 pages
...become almost proverbial. Shadwell is represented as the adopted son of this venerable monarch, who so long " In prose and verse was owned without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute." The solemn inauguration of Shadwell as his successor in this drowsy kingdom, forms the plan of the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1882 - 484 pages
...become almost proverbial. Shadwell is represented as the adopted son of this venerable monarch, who so long " In prose and verse was owned without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute." The solemn inauguration of Shadwell as his successor in this drowsy kingdom, forms the plan of the... | |
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Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with business, did at length debate To settle the succession of the state... 
